Temporally balanced multi-mode master imaging sequence for ultrasonic contrast imaging

A non-transitory computer-readable medium that includes a program that, when executed by a processing system, causes the processing system to:

• transmit a sequence of ultrasound signals including a first complement and a second complement to a patient via a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements;
• receive a sequence of echo signals corresponding to the sequence of ultrasound signals;
• combine a first selected set of echo signals to produce an Amplitude Modulated (AM) signal;
• combine a second selected set of echo signals to produce an Amplitude Modulated Phase Inversion (AMPI) signal;
• create at least one image based on at least one of the AM signal or the AMPI signal;
• display the at least one image;
• wherein at least one of an order of each of the first selected set of echo signals and the second selected set of echo signals is temporally balanced by having echo signals of the first complement in the first selected set or the second selected set occur on each side of an echo signal of the second complement in the first selected set or the second selected set, or center times of the first selected set of echo signals and the second selected set of echo signals are temporally balanced by having center times of echo signals of the first complement in the first selected set or the second selected set evenly displaced around a center time of an echo signal of the second complement in the first selected set or the second selected set;
• wherein a characteristic of each of the echo signals is set to be equal in each combining to produce the AM and AMPI signals;
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• wherein the at least one image minimizes an appearance of motion-induced tissue artifacts in the images.